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Deborah Balk
Researcher at City University of New York
Publications - 82
Citations - 12466
Deborah Balk is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Urbanization. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 76 publications receiving 10389 citations. Previous affiliations of Deborah Balk include Baruch College & University of Hawaii.
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Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
Kate E. Jones,Nikkita Gunvant Patel,Marc A. Levy,Adam Storeygard,Adam Storeygard,Deborah Balk,Deborah Balk,John L. Gittleman,Peter Daszak +8 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
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The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors undertake the first global review of the population and urban settlement patterns in the Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ), defined as the contiguous area along the coast that is less than 10 meters above sea level.
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Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability
Robert I. McDonald,Pamela J. Green,Deborah Balk,Balázs M. Fekete,Carmen Revenga,Megan Todd,Mark R. Montgomery +6 more
TL;DR: Cities in certain regions will struggle to find enough water for the needs of their residents and will need significant investment if they are to secure adequate water supplies and safeguard functioning freshwater ecosystems for future generations.
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Water on an Urban Planet: Urbanization and the Reach of Urban Water Infrastructure
Robert I. McDonald,Katherine F. Weber,J. Padowski,Martina Flörke,Christof Schneider,Pamela A. Green,Tom Gleeson,Stephanie Eckman,Bernhard Lehner,Deborah Balk,Timothy M. Boucher,Günther Grill,Mark R. Montgomery +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted the first global survey of the large cities' water sources, and showed that previous global hydrologic models that ignored urban water infrastructure significantly overestimated urban water stress.
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Determining global population distribution: methods, applications and data.
Deborah Balk,Uwe Deichmann,Gregory Yetman,Francesca Pozzi,Francesca Pozzi,Simon I. Hay,Simon I. Hay,Andrew Nelson +7 more
TL;DR: The basic methods for constructing estimates of global population distribution with attention to recent advances in improving both spatial and temporal resolution are described.